important interests in washington incoming the pentagon, were dead set against destructing it. it was a vital part of the american infrastructure. this was going to be a grave step. and this is what tom reports. not something that tom said, but somebody with him at the time had said as the word went around the administration, word came back from secretary of the treasury, george, and secretary schultz said i want you to know that i would like to request that we defer filing the suit until the next treasury bond auction because at&t also has a bond auction coming up. they actually sell more bonds than the american government does. this will royal the market and complicate what we are up. that was a standard thing that goes on at the government. but tom looked at that, and he thought if the united states government in the financial operations has to tiptoe the way around the bell system, something is wrong. and he gave a -- [inaudible] that's the kind of -- that's one of many, many nuggets you get in going to the tom whitehead westbound. i want to ask henry, dale, bruce, we've ha